Bret Weinstein says we're in an Alice in Wonderland moment: the medical freedom movement finally has its strongest warrior running HHS, but there are even more powerful forces at work.
"So there's this tension between Bobby Kennedy. He knows this stuff as well as anybody. He's really encyclopedic in his understanding of science, the fraud that masquerades the science, the hidden hazards in the vaccines. He knows the COVID vaccine story backwards and forwards.
And yet in his position, he is presumably forced to work delicately. I assume knowing him that he's doing everything he can to move the ball in the right direction. But in a case like this, where you have the DOJ sandbagging it for pharma reasons, there's just a question of, well, what world are we in?"
@Attorney_Cox explains what RFK Jr. is up against in 2026 in her appearance on @BretWeinstein's DarkHorse Inside Rails.
If ketones were the “preferred fuel of the brain” then a mixed diet with any proportion of macros would maximize ketone delivery to the brain.
The fact that you need to restrict carb to get ketones appreciably into the brain shows that the brain runs primarily on carbs whenever they are available and therefore prefers carbs.
The facts that ketones are as effective as drugs at increasing GABA (we know this because properly executed ketogenic diets are as antiepileptic as drugs), that abnormally high concentrations act as highly effective anesthetics through direct actions on glycine and GABA receptors, and that they extend the efficiency of ATP utilization are all consistent with being in energy conservation mode.
Ketones are a normal part of normal metabolism. Even on a mixed carbohydrate-inclusive diet you tend to make about 140 Cal worth of ketones per night.
They elevate after an overnight fast, in a newborn infant, and in late pregnancy.
But the normal, natural state of ketones rising to become the major fuel of the body is fasting.
It is not clear whether our ancestors had much experience with ketogenic diets. Surely they had experience with fasting during famines or during intentional rituals. Surely they had variation in carbohydrate availability.
But in extant hunter gatherers, plant foods increase according to their availability. At the equator, maximal choice is present and foods are about half plant half animal.
In the far North, you have genetic adaptations that suppress ketogenesis despite having minimal plant availability.
In groups like the Maasai, the widely popularized “milk and meat” diet was only for male teens during a highly regulated ritualized life stage where they traditionally also went on marches for wild honey and never ate meat without copious use of antimicrobial teas. But the actual broader diet has always involved extensive trade with neighboring tribes to include starches. Even milk provides plenty of carbohydrate. So their diet was probably usually not ketogenic, but maybe mildly ketogenic for male teens.
The overwhelming difference with ketones is that they increase GABA signaling and extend ATP efficiency.
The first lowers energy expenditure and the second conserves energy by making it used more efficiently.
The first is like driving less and the second is like getting better gas mileage.
These are the two features you expect during weight loss!
This is highly consistent with ketones being primarily a signal of the extended fasting state.
The invention of the ketogenic diet to treat epilepsy in 1921 was an ingenuous biohack that allowed this “slow down the nervous system” signaling to be complemented by a high calorie intake, signaling robust energy availability and thereby countering energy conservation and bringing up not only long-term sustainability but also the feeling of well being that comes with being well nourished.
If you live in Kentucky, vote for this guy.
If you don’t, donate to his campaign.
Massie is the only good person in the House.
Contrary to the view that he’s an obstructionist who gets nothing done, he successfully campaigned against the BBB getting a 10-year override on the ability of states to regulate AI, which directly protects your ability to locally keep them out of your own back yard or prevent them from starving you of electricity.
Massie was instrumental in getting the Epstein files released. And while most of them are still illegally hidden, the fact that he got this done with a LAW means that there can be indefinite future prosecution of people who are hiding them now and ability to force their release.
Massie isn’t just a guy who sits around and says no to everything because he’s a libertarian purist. He is the only voice we have left in the House to make principled stands in favor of the liberty of the common man.
The Epstein billionaires are trying to flush out their last principled critic.
Don’t let them.
Photo of me and him is from October 26, 2024.
🚨 REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX) just gave the PERFECT response:
Q: There won't be any black Republicans left in the House?
HUNT: "It's not relevant."
"I'm not here because I'm black."
"I am here because I am a qualified representative for Congressional District 38."
"The American people choose who they want to choose."
"I don't want to get into this game of RACE BAIT all day, every day."
"If there's 4? If there's 10? If there's NONE."
"I represent a white majority district that President Trump would have won by over 20 points, and I won by over 25 points."
"I'm being judged not by the color of my skin, but the content of my character."
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📽️ @PabloReports@WesleyHuntTX
Obama and Clinton didn't just threaten to bomb civilian infrastructure; they actually did it.
We should hold Trump's actions to the same standard as we hold them.
But we should also hold his words to a high standard, even though words matter less than action.
Saying a whole civilization will die will be reasonably interpreted as threatening civilians, a standard that America should never even be perceived as falling to.
Not even as a negotiating tactic.
This is true even though the Islamic Republic, which is evil, has no standard at all.
Trump deserves credit for just negotiating a cease fire, and that's the most important outcome here: that the killing stops.
Even as we celebrate the ends, we should still scrutinize the means.
You can eat beautiful food and still be undernourished if you are not absorbing it.
Digestion is downstream of perception.
I wrote more about this in this week’s newsletter. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
https://t.co/iH5aU2mp5O
It's not that Democrats want deportations to be done lawfully.
They want to stop them entirely.
That's why Newsom committed $50m to fight deportations, before Trump took office.
That's why Mayor Frey won't enforce immigration law.
That's why all the chaos is in blue areas.
We keep trying to hug our inner child with math.
And then we wonder why the loop continues.
In Module 3 of ILLUMINATE, I teach the framework that changes everything:
Adult ego. Child ego. Parent ego.
https://t.co/PmuDxafJDO
Most people don’t speak to communicate.
They speak to prove. defend. win. survive.
And the fastest way to kill connection?
👉 Speaking like your reality is the absolute truth.
How to stop blaming, projecting, and “you-statementing”
https://t.co/GkfVpqS3HL
We don’t hide our truth because we’re weak.
We hide because it once made us feel safe and powerful.
This week’s newsletter dives into how hiding shapes our communication, relationships, and sense of control, and what it might cost us as adults. Full 👇🏼
https://t.co/xGMbHEs14v
Maybe the real journey isn’t about finding the next guru, but realizing the one that’s already inside you.
Read the full reflection here
https://t.co/2TyUNwI8DX